RA: Sleep

After what seems like possibly three weeks of sleeping nearly 24 hours a day...I am maybe waking up. And maybe the Enbrel is making my joints less stiff.

I hate this chronic sleeping. It is NOT like depression. I have had depression induced sleep. This is full out unconscious sleep. Sleeping so hard that people scare you when they suddenly appear by your side after "thundering" down stairs. Sleeping so hard that when you wake up you don't know if it is Tuesday, Wednesday of the same week, night or day of the same day you last woke on, and when and if you are supposed to take medication.

I have never had sleep like this RA induced sleep.

I used to say, over the last seven years or so, that I always seemed to be more tired than everyone my age. I could never go as long. People would stay out late at little movie and game night things, and I would weigh what I had to do the next day with whether I could go at all. I desperately wanted to do those things, but I couldn't. I would be so sick the next day ( talking near vomiting sick) that it just wasn't worth it. And these were not alcohol drinking parties, either!

I guess I really was more tired than everyone else!